Sentences with phrase «educational agencies did»

While the race application drew support from 100 school districts and more than 200 charter schools, the vast majority of the state's local educational agencies did not sign on.

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The Small Business Development Center is another government agency that basically does the same thing as SCORE but with paid employees and even more educational classes.

It is time that schools took responsibility for providing good quality, evidence - based education about abortion themselves and stopped their reliance on a range of outside agencies whose educational provision does not meet the basic standards which would be required in delivery of any other subject.»

David Johnston, chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation, also receives an OBE, as do Gerri McAndrew, chief executive of Buttle UK, former chief executive of the Fostering Network, and chair of the grant management panel at the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies, and Naomi Marek, chief executive of Sky Badger, which supports the families of children with disabilities or special educational needs.

On the other hand, you still have to say something to your inquisitive relatives and friends, so I did come up with a few choice things in answer to the «What are you going to do when you're done» question: science policy; educational policy; working for funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administration.

In addition, educational reform leaders and funding agencies do not currently have easy and efficient ways of monitoring if teaching changes are happening in real - world courses.

«In many cases, the software was so bad that it didn't run,» said Geoffrey Fletcher, who oversees the educational technology office of the Texas Education Agency.

In the overall context of educational approaches in New Zealand, this program marks a radical change: It works across age groups and has sought funding from a range of different agencies, so it doesn't fit conveniently into the conventional institutions.

To make educational equity systemic and enduring, we must do more than engage our schools; we must redesign, align, and integrate all the community services that support children and families — our health departments, our recreation departments, our social services agencies.

A school, group of schools, or an entire local educational agency (LEA or school district) may operate under CEP if the LEA chooses to do so and if at least 40 percent of the total enrollment is approved for free school meals without an application.

(3) What role do Education, state educational agencies, and other entities that oversee charter schools play in ensuring students with disabilities have access to charter schools?

How do I know if I'm teaching at a low - income school or educational service agency?

Except as provided in subparagraph (vi) of this paragraph, a local educational agency (LEA) that received funds under title I for two consecutive years during which the LEA did not make adequate yearly progress on all applicable criteria in paragraph (14) of this subdivision in a subject area, or all applicable indicators in subparagraphs (15)(i) through (iii) of this subdivision, or the indicator in subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, shall be identified for improvement under section 1116 (c) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (c) and shall be subject to the requirements therein (Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1116 [c], 115 STAT.

How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping educational reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

The best way to do this, in my view, is to support the educational opportunities of Hispanic, African - American, Asian, Muslim, of racial and ethnic minority children and youth and low income students and to systematically look for ways to help these our children and youth develop agency, and understanding of the political process and of the many opportunities to make democracy work in the acts of ordinary citizens, to discover and master the codes of political participation and power, to develop political efficacy.

An agency which has done more than any other to decimate teacher supply and to threaten educational standards in England.

The bill would also require the California Department of Education to «suspend LCFF funding if a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) is not significantly improving pupil reading and comprehension skills and English learner performance» and to «prohibit educational agencies from receiving LCFF monies if their LCAP does not include evidence - based programs.»

Who does the state educational agency, or progressive district, turn to for expertise or statewide online program solutions if there is no state virtual school?

Essay contests, which will be considered on their merits, are limited to those which promote good writing as process, which are properly supervised by educational agencies, and which do not interfere with the sound educational practices of a school.

To do so, states must build accountability systems that exceed ESSA's requirements and focus on coherence within the entire system — from schools to districts to state educational agencies.

Invoking social theory, the more comprehensive perspective has the potential to shift the field of educational leadership research from a dominant preoccupation with «agency» (explaining leaders «behaviors as a function of individual capacities, motivations, and traits), toward a more balanced understanding of how the structures within which leaders work also shape the work that they do.

Fortunately, various schools and government agencies have done their best to come up with ways to help Americans save for educational expenses.

Not only does the school provide special educational and nutritional services to children, but also the school counselor or social worker can refer you to community agencies that may provide other needed services.

Do local educational agency (LEA) homeless liaisons have any specific responsibilities for preschool children experiencing homelessness?